Hazards of Time Travel
Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates
"Time travel" -- and its hazards--are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America -- "Wainscotia, Wisconsin"--that existed eighty years before.
Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of "rehabilitation"--but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating.
Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates's most unexpected novel so far.
General Information
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- : HarperCollins Publishers Australia
- : Fourth Estate
- : 31 July 2018
- : 2.5 Centimeters X 15.5 Centimeters X 23.5 Centimeters
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Joyce Carol Oates
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 813.54
- : 336